US Patent Issued to Analog Devices on Nov. 4 for "MAC processing pipelines, circuitry to configure same, and methods of operating same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,713, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"MAC processing pipelines, circuitry to configure same, and methods of operating same" was invented by Frederick A. Ware (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Cheng C. Wang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit comprising a plurality MAC processors, interconnected into a linear pipeline, configurable to process input data, wherein each MAC processor includes (A) a multiplier and (B) an accumulator circuit, and (C) a plurality of rotate input data paths, wherein each rotate input data path couples two sequential MAC processors of th...